Cannonball

There is controversy whether this video game existed in many sources, but it exists, it is very difficult to find it. There are recreated versions on the Internet, but as for the Original Arcade, I was able to see it in Santiago de Chile once.


Becoro # 2024-01-07 17:20:50

Cannonball was Owen Rubin's first game at Atari. It is not known for sure if this game was ever produced, as there is no documentation or flyers of the game that have surfaced. Owen Rubin seems to think that maybe it WAS produced; however, he is unsure.

Owen wrote Cannonball while sitting in his small office at a Model 33 teletype connected to a Motorola MicBug 6800 processor, both of which were connected to simple videogame hardware. He hand-assembled the entire program--it was only 2K, but still took several months--including self-test, saving the code on punched paper tape. When his boss reviewed the game and asked for code listings, Owen said, 'What listings?' It turns out that Owen didn't know about the two computer operators, who took the listings that the designers/programmers wrote up, typed them into the PDP-1 computers, ran them to make sure they were error-free, then return a paper tape to the designer.

Becoro # 2024-01-07 17:18:01 - source

software: Emulated on MAME,

display: Monotone

was remade as
Human Cannonball (Atari 2600)